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Hacker News

hnrss.org25 items
• Anna's Archive▲ 703

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

AI companies are secretly buying, scanning, and destroying millions of physical books to train their models, permanently locking human knowledge inside private corporate servers. Anna’s Archive is urgently calling on volunteers worldwide to scan and upload books to their shadow library before this cultural heritage disappears forever.

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• Anna's Archive▲ 550

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

AI companies are secretly buying, scanning, and destroying millions of physical books to train their models, permanently locking human knowledge inside private corporate servers. Anna’s Archive is urgently calling on volunteers worldwide to scan and upload books to their shadow library before this cultural heritage disappears forever.

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• San▲ 654

Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera

The grand jury's decision not to charge Cody Morelock comes amid a growing backlash against Flock and its cameras.

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• Felony Bench▲ 610

Felony Bench

Felony Bench is the most important benchmark of our time, some are saying, counting the number of questionable decisions made by AI agents. We might need a Pandemic Bench soon...

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• Kagi▲ 1073

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.

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• Lina▲ 491

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases

How an expired nameserver let me take over e164.arpa zones for multiple territories, and why I probably should have checked my logs sooner.

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• Bandar Labs▲ 480

Kobo can run apps now

A launcher, a signed App Store, a Rust SDK, and a capability-isolated runtime for the Kobo Clara BW. Install once over USB; everything after that arrives over Wi-Fi.

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• DeepSeek▲ 473

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

The deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp model accepts images alongside text, so you can ask the model to describe pictures, read text from screenshots, analyze charts, and more.

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• The New York Times▲ 679

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

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• XDA Developers▲ 357

Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened

TRON was an ambitious project to say the least, and after a good start, it suddenly came to a screeching halt.

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• Cymerys▲ 322

I'm becoming AI-blind

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• Remap Radio▲ 255

The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

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• Claudette▲ 236

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

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In Brief
New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William GibsonPrecast ReinforcedSmall, native web tricks worth rememberingHTML CatCopyright does not protect AI-generated content in EUMathstodonScientists release biggest 2D map of the universeLawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryOmacom Foundation launches with $8MOmacom FoundationAI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: StudyCanews24Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x chargesCodexWe Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple SiliconEncoreHow we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 msNari LabsI ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chipPoint in the CloudTigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance EngineeringIxuvoMicron announces $10B research hub in BoiseMicron

HN — Best of the Week

hnrss.org14 items
• Bun▲ 237

Bun 1.4

Bun 1.4 rewrites Bun in Rust, ships built-in headless browser automation (Bun.WebView), Bun.Image, Bun.markdown, JSON5, JSONL, Terminal and cron APIs, Node.js 26.3.0 compatibility with 1,517 newly passing tests, parallel test and run, Windows ARM64, and an opt-in global virtual store for up to 7× faster installs.

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• Curious Quail▲ 1262

Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence

Also here's a cool unrelated photo of a chipmunk because I need some chill

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• AI▲ 1000

Don't paste the AI, please

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• Simed W▲ 537

Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

Can a small transformer autocomplete MIDI performances in real time?

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• Laserphile▲ 936

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

Recently I ran into a strange problem with my Bluetooth headphones. They support multipoint Bluetooth audio, so they can be connected to my ...

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• SafeDep▲ 436

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

A compromised release of the popular Rust crate arrayref pulled in a typosquatted proc-macro1 whose build script downloads and runs a remote binary at compile…

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• GitHub▲ 422

The August 17 outage

An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability.

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• Consumer Rights Wiki▲ 261

Consumer Rights Wiki

The community-built wiki documenting anti-ownership, anti-consumer practices ranging from right-to-repair restrictions, planned obsolescence, subscription traps, & digital rights issues.

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• Daniel Vaughn58d ago

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

Hello everyone. I've been working on this experimental editor called Huzzah.I've been working almost exclusively with coding agents since January of this year, and over the past few months…

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